Star trek watching the clock pdf

Dulmur let out a low whistle. One of the most peaceful years in recent history. After the Cardassian treaty, before Wolf , before the Dominion. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental. All Rights Reserved. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. Just great. A veteran DTI agent had suffered a breakdown after a particularly stressful mission, taken a researcher hostage at phaserpoint, and turned the San Francisco office into a siege zone.

I hate those. Outwardly, Dulmur kept his cool. George Faunt was a good agent, a man Dulmur had worked alongside for years. Six million, five hundred and thirty—no, twenty-seven thousand, seven hundred and, what?

Down to the millisecond! This job, this job—they train you to pretend time is this rigid, exacting thing, to break it all down into precise durations and dates. All we are is random quantum fluctuations that can collapse into the cosmic foam just like that! She closed her eyes and her lips moved in prayer. It had only been three weeks and a day since the final blitzkrieg of the Borg invasion. And yet the Department had more immediate concerns than that ancient anachronism. In the wake of a disaster like this, there were always going to be those who tried to go back in time and undo it, whether through cosmic anomalies, ancient relics, or untested warp modifications—which were more likely to destroy the aspiring travelers than anything else, but still posed unpredictable risks to the continuum.

Director Andos had her work cut out for her trying to convince them that they might do more harm than good—a difficult position for her to take considering that her homeworld of Rhaandarel had been one of the casualties. And then there were the visitors from the future who tended to congregate around major historical events.

The historians could generally be relied on to minimize their intervention though there were some infamous blunders such as the Rasmussen affair , but you never knew when someone might come back with a more sinister agenda. Faunt and Ranjea had concluded that a timeship from the thirty-sixth century, probably a historical observation craft, had gotten too close during the Borg attack and been crippled. Prochronistic travelers often underestimated past technology to their peril. More on that later The latest point we've seen so far in the 23rd century era is James T Kirk being taken away by the Nexus ribbon in the prologue of Star Trek: Generations.

This is the event that allows Kirk to meet Picard when the Next Generation crew take on the mantle of headlining the big screen franchise. The richest, most complicated period in Star Trek chronology. That suggests it will presumably be set at a similar point in the Star Trek timeline. Picard era turn of the 25th century Begins with: Picard Ends with:??? Since we last saw Jean-Luc Picard, he's retired to his vineyard in France, an android uprising on Mars has led to a ban on all synthetic life, and a disabled Borg Cube known simply as the 'Artifact' is being mined for technology.

In order to save the galaxy, the brave crew of the USS Discovery set off on a one-way mission years into the future in Star Trek: Discovery 's season 2 finale. Their 32nd century destination is new territory for Star Trek — thanks to the mysterious 'Burn', most of the dilithium in the galaxy has been destroyed, making warp travel impossible.

As a result, the Federation is a shadow of its former self — even Earth has decided to go it alone. This isn't, however, the furthest Star Trek has ventured into the future — Short Trek ' Calypso ' is set on the Discovery in a distant future where the ship's computer has become sentient. In 's Star Trek movie directed by JJ Abrams, Spock Prime tries to save Romulus from a supernova, inadvertently creates a black hole while doing so, and gets pulled into the past, along with Romulan mining vessel the Narada.

The ship is destroyed as Kirk's father, George, sacrifices himself to save the rest of the crew. Considering The Original Series was cancelled after just three seasons in , it's remarkable that Star Trek is still around half a century later.

Most of the original cast — with the notable exception of Walter Koenig Chekov — were enticed back to voice their characters. But when a series of escalating temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the history-spanning Temporal Cold War in the twenty-fourth century, Agents Lucsly and Dulmur will need all their investigative skill and unbending determination to stop those who wish to rewrite the past for their own advantage, and to keep the present and the future from devolving into the kind of chaos they really, really hate.

Christopher L. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel Only Superhuman , as well as several novelettes in Analog and other science fiction magazines.

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